This is not very descriptive, but the game is evidently the same as “[Round Tag]” and “Twos and Threes,” played with a small number.
Tribet
A common children’s game played in Lancashire; which, perhaps, may be the primitive form of “[Trap].” It is played with a “pum,” a piece of wood about a foot long and two inches in diameter, and a “tribet,” a small piece of hard wood.—Halliwell’s Dictionary.
See “[Trap, Bat, and Ball].”
Trippit and Coit
A game formerly known under the appellation of “Trippets,” Newcastle. It is the same as “Trip-cat” in some southern counties. The trippet is a small piece of wood obtusely pointed—something like a shoe—hollow at one end, and having a tail a little elevated at the other, which is struck with a buckstick. It is also called “Buckstick, Spell-and-Ore.”—Brockett’s North Country Words. See also Dickinson’s Cumberland Glossary. Halliwell’s Dictionary says—The game is almost peculiar to the North of England. There is a poem called “The Trip Match” in Mather’s Songs.
See “[Nur and Spel],” “[Trap, Bat, and Ball].”
Trip and Go
Trip and go, heave and hoe,
Up and down, to and fro;
From the town to the grove,
Two and two let us rove;
A-maying, a-playing,
Love hath no gainsaying;
So merrily trip and go,
So merrily trip and go.
—Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes, cccxlviii.